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Reconstruction Vocab

TermDefinition
assassination murder of a political or government leader
reconstruction rebuilding and healing a country after war
Andrew Johnson became president after Lincoln was killed
13 Amendment abolished slavery
Black codes laws by the South before the Civil War to keep African Americans from having rights
Reconstruction Act of 1867 gave African Americans men the right to vote. No former Confederate leaders can hold or vote. Made by US Congress
Freedmen's Bureau Formed to help freed slaves. It built hospitals and schools.
carpetbagger people who came from the North to start businesses in the South
scalawags Southerners who support Reconstuction
14 Amendment gave African Americans citizenship and the Right to equal protection under law
15 Amendment gave ALL male citizens the right to vote (included African Americans)
impeachment charges of wrongdoing by an elected officials by Congress
segregation separation
Jim Crow Laws laws passed after Reconstruction that enforced segregation
sharecropping renting land from landowners and paying rent with a portion of the crop
grandfather clause exceptions put in laws to help make changes easier
involuntary servitude having to serve not by one's own choice, slavery
deprive to remove or taken away
special privileges immunities, being allowed to do something others are not
area of control jurisdiction, where one has influence
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